#harmful practices

Like buddy... We used to wear lead and mercury laden cosmetics, clothes coloured with toxic dyes, live in asbestos homes decorated with radium painted clocks and whatnot, use so much coal for power and heat it'd black out the skies of many major cities, eat rocks and petroleum jelly bc they thought it was good for the health, straight up chug morphine n shit at 2yrs old bc of a COUGH, etc, etc.

In legal and ethical contexts, the terms “enslavement” and “exploitation” have distinct meanings, although they can sometimes overlap.

Let’s break it down shall we:

Enslavement refers to the act of forcibly depriving someone of their freedom and subjecting them to involuntary servitude. Historically, this has involved chattel slavery, where individuals are treated as property and have no rights or autonomy. Enslavement often includes physical coercion, violence, and dehumanization.

Exploitation, on the other hand, broadly refers to taking advantage of someone for personal gain, often at their expense. It can occur in various forms, such as labor exploitation, sexual exploitation, or economic exploitation. Exploitation doesn’t necessarily involve physical captivity; it can also occur when someone is coerced, manipulated, or deceived into providing labor, services, or resources.

While both terms relate to harm and abuse, “enslavement” specifically denotes the severe deprivation of freedom and personhood, whereas “exploitation” encompasses a wider range of harmful practices.

Our Vision

More than just a handbook

It was not long after my arrival at medical school I became acutely aware of the lack of clinical teaching about conditions as they appear on darker skin. As a black man I found it perplexing that I was being shown images of clinical signs exclusively on Caucasian patients and wonder how I would identify these signs on my skin as well as any non-white I would be treating in the future.

The medical care you receive should never be compromised due to the color of your skin; the premise upon which BlackandBrownSkin has been created. This platform has been devised to showcase clinical signs of diseases on black and brown skin. My vision is to see the impact of this educational platform result in earlier and more accurate diagnosis, increased patient satisfaction and greater confidence amongst healthcare professionals when treating patients of color.

More recently we have seen patients from a BAME background were 4times more likely to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.* Illustrating some of the current disparities that exist in healthcare today. This further highlights the need for ‘Mind the Gap’ which goes hand in hand with this platform as resources for all to access to education on the presentation of clinical signs on darker skin tones.

It’s more than a handbook. It’s a movement for change.

Malone Mukwende

FOUNDER

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